This is an answer from our PPC Linux guru type person..enjoy. ----- Forwarded message from Leah Cunningham <leah@suse.com> ----- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Leah Cunningham <leah@suse.com> To: Ben Rosenberg <brosenb@suse.com> Subject: Re: (forw) [SLE] Anyone experiencing Mac OS problems with PowerPC 6.4? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007050842340.19571-100000@g3.suse.com>

Message-Id: <p04320401b5864190c055@[194.112.60.248]> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:23:28 +0100 To: SuSE Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> From: Paul Bentley <pb@wardrobe.dircon.co.uk> Subject: [SLE] Anyone experiencing Mac OS problems with PowerPC 6.4?

I'm not sure yet if I have some sort of conflict between SuSE and my Mac OS 8.6 but when booting back into the Mac after using Linux, and frequently on start up now, we get right to the end of the start up sequence and my Mac freezes. Eudora, usually pretty stable on my Mac has frozen and we've had a number of system bombs. I've temporarily removed the BootX extension and vmlinux file to see if things improve. Neither Disk First Aid or Disk Warrior report any problems. Anyone else experienced something similar?

This is rather strange as the two operating systems remain completely separate of each other. The only time I have occasionally run into issues has been with certain hardware not working correctly after a warm reboot, in which the computer is not powered off for a couple seconds before starting it up again, which could be the problem for you. In particular, I experienced this problem with a sound card, but it could be some other hardware problem where the hardware is not being re-initialized properly by MacOS after running in Linux. Also, when you removed BootX, did you see an improvement? (Out of curiousity.)

Also, when I rebuilt the desktop on the Mac just now Linux dialog appeared on the screen during the start up sequence while I was holding the alt+Cmnd keys down - this is before the BootX window appeared. Anyone else seen this?

What did the dialog say? I have not heard of this problem before. I do believe that extensions are loaded before the computer checks to see if you want to re-build the desktop, so it may be that holding down these keys triggers a responce from the BootX program. I will research this for you.

If anyone else is using the PowerPC version of SuSE on a Mac I'd be interested to know what they think of it and if they have managed to fully configure it. I haven't yet managed to get SuSE to recognise or connect to my ethernet connected Epson printer or Global Village Modem. Has anyone had any success at doing this?

Paul, if you can tell me what you have tried so far, I can attempt to help you with this. Regards, Leah SuSE Support ''~`` ( o o ) +------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.--------------------+ | SuSE Inc. Precision-Engineered Linux | | Leah Cunningham Technical Support | | 580 2nd Street, Ste 210 PH: 510.628.3380 | | Oakland, CA 94607 FAX: 510.628.3381 | | .oooO | | ( ) Oooo. | +---------------------\ (----( )----------------------+ \_) ) / (_/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Benjamin A. Rosenberg Precision LINUX :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: SuSE Inc., :: Tel: +1-510-628-3380 ext:5086 :: :: 580 Second St., Suite 210 :: Fax: +1-510-835-3381 :: :: Oakland CA 94607 :: mailto:brosenb@suse.com :: :: USA :: http://www.suse.com :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq